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Extreme Overclocking with Liquid Nitrogen – AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series

In the spirit of trying out new things in the lab in our review of the AMD Threadripper 7000 Series HEDT and Workstation CPUs, we decided that stopping at water-cooled overclocking was not extreme enough for the StorageReview lab, so we brought in some friends and decided to get cold, -195c cold. We wanted to see what a nice overclock and a couple of pours of liquid nitrogen could do to help push these chips to the edge without destroying them along the way. Read more on how Jordan plays with liquid nitrogen. AMD

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X & 7970X CPU Review

We don’t often dip into the traditional desktop systems or CPU space, we usually stop at workstations, that may or may not be equipped with server CPUs. But AMD has the desktop prosumer world abuzz with a new set of non-PRO Ryzen Threadripper High-End Desktop (HEDT) chips that range from 24 to 64 cores. For those that don’t require the performance and manageability in the PRO family, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series stands out as an easily overclockable option for enthusiasts that every last drop of performance out of their PC.  Read more in this review of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper.

HP Z6 G5 A Workstation Review

The HP Z6 G5 A is a desktop tower workstation with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO CPU and room for three high-end GPUs. It can be configured with up to a 96-core CPU and 1TB of DDR5. The system is designed to be an absolute animal for modern professional workloads like rendering and AI.

Read the review for the HP Z6 G5 Workstation. HP

Dell Elevates Cloud Management Through APEX Navigator, Expands Multicloud Storage Solutions

Initially announced during Dell Technologies World ’23, Dell continues to expand its APEX offering and has taken a significant leap forward in cloud storage and management with the announcement of Dell APEX Navigator. This cutting-edge platform, part of the integrated Dell APEX Console experience, is set to revolutionize how businesses interact with cloud storage, particularly with its initial support for Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS.  Read more on the APEX Navigator announcement. Dell Technologies

NVIDIA Spectrum-X Integrates with Dell, HPE, and Lenovo

Riding the momentum of their groundbreaking GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, NVIDIA is now set to revolutionize the AI-driven networking landscape with their latest innovation, the Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform. Explicitly designed for enhancing generative AI workloads, Spectrum-X is being integrated into the server offerings of major tech giants such as Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo.  Get the latest news on NVIDIA's Spectrum-X. NVIDIA

WD 24TB CMR HDDs Shipping, 28TB SMR HDD Ramping

Western Digital (WD) is now shipping a new series of 24TB CMR HDDs for hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise data center customers, marking a significant advancement in the storage technology landscape. In addition, WD is also ramping up the new 28TB SMR HDD, as the 26TB model has reached nearly half of its data center exabytes shipped in Q1 2024.

Read about the WD 24TB CMR Drives. Western Digital

NVIDIA And Microsoft Azure Ignite With New Offerings Like AI Foundry And GenAI, AV Simulators

It’s been a busy week for NVIDIA, and they are not finished. NVIDIA is rolling out an AI foundry service on Microsoft Azure, and it’s a powerful new tool for businesses diving into custom generative AI. Read the NVIDIA announcements for Azure, AI Foundry, GenAI, AV Sims.

Scality Expands Cyber-resilient Storage for Veeam, Adds Channel-friendly Deployment Option

Scality is expanding its horizons by introducing its first hardware appliance. This significant move aligns with its vision of offering customers freedom of choice and sustainable, cost-effective storage solutions. This new venture begins with ARTESCA, Scality’s endeavor to democratize S3 object storage with a user-friendly and affordable solution. Read about the new Scality Appliance, ARTESCA. Scality

Supermicro Announced New HGX Liquid Cooled Servers

Supermicro has announced new server offerings that incorporate NVIDIA’s latest HGX H200 GPUs (with H200 Tensor Core GPUs) are set to provide significant advancements in generative AI and LLM training. Read about Supermicro's foray into Liquid Cooled Servers. Supermicro

MSI Announces New AI Server Platforms with Liquid Cooling

MSI unveiled its latest server technology at the SC23 convention, enhancing its position within the enterprise, organizational, and data center markets. At the event, MSI showcased its new GPU and CXL memory expansion servers, which are integrated with cutting-edge processors from AMD and Intel. They promise to address the growing demand for more robust data center compute performance. Here's the news on MSI's New AI Liquid Cooled Servers. MSI

iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Enterprise F-Series All-NVMe Appliances and TrueNAS SCALE 23.10

In the last five years or so, there have been massive strides and advancements in Enterprise Data Storage and Delivery systems. One advancement that has taken the computing world by storm is All-NVMe Flash storage. The technology has finally advanced to a point where it is both technologically feasible and financially reasonable to upgrade those old boxes full of spinning rust to all-new, faster, more efficient, more effective storage solutions.

Read more from iXsystems and F-series Appliances. iXsystems

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While all the standard nerds are cuddled in for the night, the StorageReview team and friends are pouring liquid nitrogen all over our AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series casually crushing extreme performance. Full report coming soon. For now, emerge yourself in our vapors.

Nimbus Data has been producing all-flash arrays for many years, then they made the arguably insane leap to jam 100TB of flash in a 3.5” SATA SSD. Now they’ve got another unique storage twist, the ExaDrive Go, which was on display at SC23 last week. This is a 16TB 2.5” SATA SSD available in a bunch of colors, but the kicker is, it has a USB C port integrated so the drive doubles as a portable SSD. We’ve been talking a lot about “Sneaker Net” lately, and this drive looks like a lot of fun potentially for that class of data transfer.

Submer can get more cooling out of their solutions by moving fluid faster over the CPU heatsink with a pair of small fans. It’s called forced convection single-phase cooling.

Our 45Drives (45HomeLab) HL15 unit came in today and one thing we really love out of the gate are the little retainer clips on the HDD bays. Holds the drives snug during insertion. If a HDD slips or gets dropped, they prevent damage to the backplane. We’ve totally never done that and destroyed a SATA/SAS port.